Andrew Grove, Ph.D., and the former head of Intel, was the subject of an article, Brain Scan, in which the newspaper asked this pioneer of the chip-making industry about his views on businesses now.

The article is titled, “Paranoid Survivor.” Dr. Grove is well-known for his willingness to shake things up.

This is how he thinks health care should be shaken up.

The Economist

…“Another business he believes to be ripe for disruption is health care. He complains that the industry seems to innovate much too slowly. The lack of proper electronic medical records and smart “clinical decision systems” bothers him, as does the slow-moving, bureaucratic nature of clinical trials. He thinks pharmaceutical firms should study the fast “knowledge turns” achieved by chipmakers, so that the cycles of learning and innovation are accelerated. (A knowledge turn, a term coined by Dr Grove, is the time it takes for an experiment to proceed from hypothesis to results, and then to a new hypothesis—around 18 months in chipmaking, but 10-20 years in medicine.)” (Emphasis added)

Source: The Economist, September 5, 2009